Conducted literature review on economic shocks

  • Day: 2024-06-24
  • Time: 01:30 to 02:10
  • Project: Business
  • Workspace: WP 1: Strategic / Growth & Development
  • Status: In Progress
  • Priority: MEDIUM
  • Assignee: Matías Nehuen Iglesias
  • Tags: Economic Shocks, Literature Review, Econometrics, Simulation Techniques, Research Gaps

Description

Session Goal

The session aimed to conduct a comprehensive literature review on economic shocks, focusing on identifying research gaps and exploring advanced econometric methods for shock analysis.

Key Activities

  • Reviewed key literature on economic shocks, highlighting significant contributions and existing research gaps.
  • Analyzed Laura Mayoral’s paper on shock persistence and its implications for economic simulations using bootstrap methods.
  • Explored various econometric identification methods, such as Cholesky decompositions and SVAR, for enhancing economic shock research.
  • Discussed the integration of FAVARs and DSGE models in economic shock analysis, focusing on impulse response estimation and nonlinearities.
  • Differentiated between theoretical identification and empirical accounting of economic shocks, emphasizing practical policy implications.

Achievements

  • Compiled a structured overview of relevant literature, providing a guide for positioning new research.
  • Connected insights from existing research to ongoing work in economic simulations and econometric methods.

Pending Tasks

  • Further exploration of empirical validation techniques for identified research gaps.
  • Development of a detailed research proposal based on identified gaps and methodologies.

Evidence

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